Median household income increased 5.2 percent between 2014 and 2015 while the percentages of those in poverty and those without health insurance declined across the country, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday.

Nine out of 10 working-age adults in the United States were covered by health insurance last year, and the number of uninsured continues to decline, according to new figures released by the federal government.

There are more than 2,500 drinking water systems in Connecticut and since 2000, 186 of them have been listed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as having reported lead concentrations that exceeded the level requiring action— many of them multiple times.

Connecticut has the ninth lowest adult obesity rate in the nation at 26.3 percent. Across the country, obesity rates remained steady though high in 2014, according to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Only Kansas, Minnesota, New Mexico, Ohio and Utah saw an increase. The data is based on self-reported information from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.